1. Trash Art Day 1
E.Lyon 2017

2. BW 3.15.2017 What kind of art could you make out of trash?
Make a list of things you have at home, that you could make trash art out of.
Sketch a few ideas of some art you could make out of trash?
Detention sticky notes are a remind to you to take care of your business

3. Agenda
Bell Work
Bell Work Review
Artists
Trash Art Ideation
Exit Pass

4. Bell Work Review What kind of art could you make out of trash?
Make a list of things you have at home, that you could make trash art out of.
Sketch a few ideas of some art you could make out of trash?

5. Get ready for a presentation!
What have other people done with trash to make art?
Ready looks like…
Eyes on presenter
Voices off
Sitting attentively ready to watch the presentation
NO PHONES – please put away, thank you!

6. Vik Muniz
The author arranges all of the pieces carefully, photographs the collages, and then destroys them so that they only exist as photographs. Muniz also mixes junk with luxury goods such as caviar in his collages to make a statement about consumerism.

8. Bernard Pras
Pras creates tributes to celebrity portraits and other works of art through a process called anamorphosis, during which he stacks everyday objects on a photograph to form a collage.

10. Sarah-Jane van der Westhuizen
The art is created from old car parts, recycled metal pieces, and anything the artist could get her hands on. Van der Westhuizen has installed several of these trash sculptures all over Europe.

13. David Mach
Hundreds of used coathangers go into the sculpture work of David Mach, who uses other recycled materials to do larger-than-life sculptures. This gorilla is one of his most impressive examples.

15. Frank Russell
The shark piece below, Captain Crunch, was constructed from hubcaps, food packaging tins, and the leg of a male mannequin. The fins are copper and the teeth are soup cans. It is ten feet long. Russell specializes in these sculptures produced from found objects.

17. Tim Gaudreau
Gaudreau’s work combines photography, video, new-media, graphics, and sculpture with humor and irony to create collaborations that advocate for a greater awareness of eco-issues and empowerment. Gaudreau photographed everything he threw out every day for a year. The resulting collage was huge and filled a few rooms at the gallery it was exhibited in.

19. Mario Caicedo Langer
Langer creates sculpture from trash and broken gadgets.

22. Dave Hind
Dave is a Hamilton, Ontario artist who specializes in reclaimed metal and other found objects in his works. He also produces large-scale sculpture and functional artwork.

24. Jason Mercier
Mercier specializes in celebrity collages done with the celebrity’s own discarded objects. While Hello Kitty likely didn’t discard any objects, Donald Trump and Mariah Carey probably did.

28. Tom Deininger
Deininger is widely known as a famous artist who upcycles junk into fine art installations. He is also a highly regarded and collected visual artist.

31. Michelle Stitzlein
Stitzlein creates art from found materials such as piano keys, broken china, and other recycled items.

33. Kitty Wales
Wales has been created sculptures, designs, and installations for the last fifteen years that centre on her observations of the animal world. The material that she uses to created her various animal sculptures is salvaged from everyday domestic life.

35. Mark Langan
Langan creates art from reclaimed cardboard and other materials. Scream was created from corrugated cardboard and other recycled materials. Langan works with non-toxic glue, an exacto knife, and a lot of patience.

38. Robert Bradford
Bradford, a former psychotherapist, is best known for creating sculptures from toy parts. He screws the toy parts onto a wooden armature to create his 3D sculptures.

40. Subodh Gupta
Brass pots and eerie skulls from a mashup of metal parts are just part of what this skilled Indian artist has done.

42. Ha Schult
Schult is known for creating massive installations of people constructed from trash in major locations around the world. Here are just a few of them.

46. Tyree Guyton
Guyton created the Heidelburg Project as an urban renewal project, transforming a rundown section of Detroit from a place where people were afraid to walk to an art exhibition that people wanted to visit.

48. Elizabeth Lundberg Morisette
ClementineMom on Flickr, Morisette specializes in making art from items she purchases off of eBay or otherwise found objects.

50. Charles Kaufman
Kaufman’s crushed can art is done on crushed soda cans.

52. Chris Jordan
Jordan’s Running the Numbers series aims to display America’s relationship with consumerism. While he doesn’t physically make art from trash, he does showcase the wastefulness of a consumerist society eloquently. The first image, Plastic Bottles, is a shot of 2 million plastic bottles shows how many plastic bottles Americans go through in five minutes. The second, Packing Peanuts is a photograph of 166,000 packing peanuts, or the number of overnight packages shipped by air every hour. The third image, is a recreation of Seurat’s masterpiece, A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of Grand Jatte, done with 106,000 aluminum cans. A closeup of the work is immediately beneath it.

55. Gugger Petter
This artist creates two and three-dimensional collages from newspaper.

57. Ptolemy Elrington
While he built his reputation creating creatures from hubcaps, Elrington has since branched out into grocery cart parts and old pots and pans.

61. Nek Chand
About 40 years ago, Chand cleared some jungle to build a garden in his native India. He put together a few sculptures using found materials and old trash. Now, his “garden” covers 40 acres and includes numerous mosaics and sculptures made from reclaimed materials.

66. Carolien Adriaansche
A Dutch artist, Adriaansche creates colourful pieces that are put together from every day trash such as bottle caps, wire, sticks, and cleaning bottles.

70. Steven Siegel
Siegel creates large trash forms and places them in the middle of various landscapes. Electronic waste on the Stanford campus and newspapers with headlines about Hurricane Katrina feature prominently in the following installations.

73. Minimum Day Schedule
First 7:40 a.m.
1st period 7:45—8:45 am (60 minutes)
2nd period 8:50—9:50 am (60 minutes)
3rd period 9:55—10:55 am (60 minutes)
4th period 11:00—12:00 pm (60 minutes)
Lunch 12:00—12:30 pm (30 minutes)

74. Find at least three objects And pickup a worksheet
Pick out some objects
Find at least three objects
And pickup a worksheet

75. Alexandria
Rivera
Erik
Cuevas
Heidi
Pedraza
Jennifer
Hurtado Garcia
Dallan
Valdez
Andrea
Lopez Ibarra
Kasandra
Kerr
Aalecxis
Robles Garcia
Angela
Villagomez
Jenaro
Romero
Arianne
Levi
Andrew
Maylin
Aubree
Johnson
Yovani
Guzman
Bailey
Durrant
Marie
Estrada
Mason
Garrett
Angelia
Gomez
Isaiah
Gutierrez

76. Trash Art
Be creative!

77. Ideas
Think outside the box

78. Make 3D or 2D Art
It’s up to you!
Make it 3D or 2D

79. Rubric and Studio Time 2 weeks
Students will vote on which art goes to the art show
Must be made out of garbage
All attached to each other

80. EP 3.15.2017 What do you want to make for your project? Draw a sketch
What will you need to connect (glue, wire, etc.) your art work or paint your art with?
See you all next class!

81. Resources Found on…